Where You Are From
Every now and again I like to take a look and see where you, the readers of this blog, live in the world. It amazes me that my words are being read by peo...
Author: Fr. Peter
One Nation Under God
In 1892 Baptist Minister and Christian Socialist Francis Bellamy wrote the pledge of allegiance. It was first released in a children’s magazine and ...
Blog Action Day: Water
Today over 5,000 bloggers around the world are joining together to blog about the necessity of clean water. We are trying to bring awareness of this impor...
Does God Care Who Gets Elected?
Icon from Orthodox Images This is a question I have been chewing on for a long time. Does God really care who wins an election? My feeling is He doe...
14 October ~ St. Parascheva the New
Our venerable Mother Paraskeve the New lived as a monastic in the 11th century. She is beloved in Romania as Parascheva and in Serbia and Macedonia as Petka. Sh...
Did God Rescue the Miners?
Sean O’Key/CNN Much has been written about the rescue of the 33 miners from Chile yesterday. I could not seem to pull myself away from the TV report...
Lazarus Come Forth
Mario Sepulveda leads a cheer for Chile after being lifted from the mine early Wednesday. Sepulveda was the second miner to be rescued.Photo from the Government...
12 October ~ St. Wilfrid of York
Born in Northumberland in 634, Saint Wilfrid was educated at Lindesfarne and then spent some time in Lyons and Rome. Returning to England, he was elected abbot ...
2010 Orthodox Census
This past week the 2010 Orthodox Census was released as part of a larger study of Congregation Study. There are some very interesting findings in this report. A...
Relics of St. Vladimir Coming to Seminary Chapel
Date: November 13, 2010 – November 14, 2010 The relics of the Seminary’s patron saint, Holy Great Prince Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles, who conver...